1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:00,400 Speaker 1: Me. 2 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:02,160 Speaker 2: I'll make Murray aldsers we this morning. 3 00:00:01,960 --> 00:00:05,320 Speaker 1: Man, Michael, good morning to you. Now. 4 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:07,840 Speaker 2: I was watching an interview with Elbow yesterday. God, he's 5 00:00:07,840 --> 00:00:11,280 Speaker 2: boring to interview, isn't he? I mean, what a boring boring. 6 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:14,480 Speaker 1: Man's I've interviewed him three times? 7 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:19,599 Speaker 2: Is like cat cat Karen, Karen, you. 8 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:22,279 Speaker 1: My dear Peter Dutton isn't much better? 9 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:25,320 Speaker 2: True, but he speaks what was interesting about it? And yes, 10 00:00:25,360 --> 00:00:28,760 Speaker 2: I we'll get it's all. It's all tied in with 11 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:31,480 Speaker 2: the weather. They were asking him, Given you won't call 12 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:33,879 Speaker 2: an election this weekend because of the weather, You've now 13 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:35,800 Speaker 2: run out of time and you're going to have to 14 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:37,320 Speaker 2: run a budget and you have to going to go 15 00:00:37,360 --> 00:00:39,320 Speaker 2: longer than your thought. Is that how it looks like 16 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:40,320 Speaker 2: it's going to unfold? 17 00:00:42,159 --> 00:00:45,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, although having said that, and I heard that as well. 18 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:49,960 Speaker 1: But having said that, tropical cyclone Alfred which is dictating terms, 19 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:53,800 Speaker 1: no doubt about that. It's slowed to a virtual crawl overnight. 20 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:56,720 Speaker 1: It's only a walking pace that it heads towards the coast, 21 00:00:57,000 --> 00:00:59,440 Speaker 1: and that has created the suggestion it might not be 22 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:01,840 Speaker 1: a category two when it arrives. It could beat down 23 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:05,000 Speaker 1: to a category one and you know, to lay people 24 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:07,640 Speaker 1: like ourselves. You know, that doesn't sound like a hell 25 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:10,640 Speaker 1: of a lot, but apparently it is right now though 26 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:13,880 Speaker 1: the cyclone is still well off the coast, but in 27 00:01:14,319 --> 00:01:17,440 Speaker 1: northern New South Wales where we're talking about right now 28 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:21,039 Speaker 1: here you go up to four hundred millimeters of four 29 00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:23,959 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty mills of rain could be dumped across 30 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:26,720 Speaker 1: the northern rivers this morning with wind gusts of one 31 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:29,440 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty five k's an hour, and Alfred Mike 32 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:32,360 Speaker 1: is still well out to sea. So the people of 33 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:36,800 Speaker 1: particularly Southeast Queensland, they are bunkered down big time. You've 34 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:40,720 Speaker 1: got flights canceled, schools are shut, you've got businesses all 35 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:44,520 Speaker 1: boarded up, and it's really just a case of wait 36 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:48,080 Speaker 1: and see. They've done all they can to preposition, you know, 37 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:51,360 Speaker 1: flood rescue boats and you know the Australian Defense Force 38 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:53,800 Speaker 1: has been called in. This is all hands on deck 39 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:56,640 Speaker 1: big time and as you say, it could impact very 40 00:01:56,720 --> 00:02:02,320 Speaker 1: much the calling of the election. But if Alfred does 41 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:05,280 Speaker 1: cool off a bit, maybe Albaneze could still go to 42 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:09,040 Speaker 1: the Governor General on Sunday because he's moderate situation from 43 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:13,400 Speaker 1: the Emergency Central headquarters in Canberra. He's not leaving his 44 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:15,240 Speaker 1: post until Alfred makes landfall. 45 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:17,480 Speaker 2: Okay, well, fair enough to But then the next question is, 46 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:20,120 Speaker 2: because of the timing and you need thirty three days, 47 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:23,200 Speaker 2: if you can't go this weekend and you rule out 48 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:25,200 Speaker 2: easter and all of that sort of stuff, he's then 49 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:26,680 Speaker 2: going to run a budget. Does he want to run 50 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:27,320 Speaker 2: a budget? 51 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:31,920 Speaker 1: I mean probably not, you know, I mean there's some 52 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:35,079 Speaker 1: decent stuff to talk about. Interest rates, Okay, one little cut, 53 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:39,640 Speaker 1: maybe another one coming down the turnpike. GDP in the 54 00:02:39,639 --> 00:02:42,680 Speaker 1: December quarter came in at zero point six percent of growth. 55 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:45,079 Speaker 1: That makes the annual growth rate one point three percent. 56 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:48,600 Speaker 1: You can talk about that. That's after seven successive declines. 57 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:53,000 Speaker 1: You've got decent retail spending figures, notwithstanding the Boss of 58 00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:56,760 Speaker 1: Country Roads saying buy more paths from me please. So look, 59 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:00,239 Speaker 1: there's stuff to talk about. But right now is my 60 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:04,600 Speaker 1: figure on this Right now it's Coalition fifty one to 61 00:03:04,639 --> 00:03:08,040 Speaker 1: forty nine to Labor two party preferred. Peter Dutton still 62 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:13,200 Speaker 1: trails alb and easiest preferred Prime minister, and there's been 63 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:17,120 Speaker 1: a cash splash. We're drowning and bloody election promises from 64 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:21,440 Speaker 1: both sides everything Labour says. The coalition's matching everything a 65 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:25,440 Speaker 1: coalition puts up just about Labour's matching. The big area 66 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:30,080 Speaker 1: where perhaps they are differing is in terms of the 67 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:34,440 Speaker 1: public service. It's a bit trumpy and what Dutton and 68 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:37,040 Speaker 1: company are talking about here is slacking the public service. 69 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:41,000 Speaker 1: Labor's bloated, the barocracy, all this stuff. It's the big 70 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:45,280 Speaker 1: impost on the taxpayer, big spending, a big government spend 71 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:48,440 Speaker 1: on the public service that is really mushroomed under Albanezi. 72 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:51,280 Speaker 1: That's the line from Peter Dutton. Labour is saying, Mike, 73 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:54,000 Speaker 1: as you might expect, trust us with your health and 74 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:56,600 Speaker 1: look at the economy. We are heading in the right direction. 75 00:03:57,280 --> 00:03:57,680 Speaker 1: W ir. 76 00:03:57,680 --> 00:03:59,720 Speaker 2: I was just saying while you were getting a reconnected 77 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:02,800 Speaker 2: w A's this week, And what a weird place wa is, 78 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:06,080 Speaker 2: isn't it. It's sort of it. I mean, geez, it's 79 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:08,080 Speaker 2: not good for democracy when you win fifty three or 80 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:11,600 Speaker 2: fifty nine seats and they're going to lose a few 81 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:13,080 Speaker 2: this time, but they're still going to win the election. 82 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:14,640 Speaker 2: And it's just the money, isn't it. I mean, they've 83 00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:15,960 Speaker 2: got so much money they don't know what to do 84 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:17,839 Speaker 2: with it. And people can't be bother changing the government. 85 00:04:17,880 --> 00:04:20,560 Speaker 2: Why would you win. Everything's good in the sunshining, mate. 86 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:23,680 Speaker 1: They're sitting on a giant iron or mine. That's all 87 00:04:23,839 --> 00:04:26,000 Speaker 1: WA's mate. It hasn't been any coal over that side 88 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:27,640 Speaker 1: of the country, all the coals in the East Coast, 89 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:30,599 Speaker 1: which no one wants anymore. Everybody wants the iron or 90 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:31,840 Speaker 1: of Western Australia. 91 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:34,920 Speaker 2: Exactly. I know you're busy, Murray. I know you're running 92 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:36,800 Speaker 2: a newsroom. I know you're a news titan in that 93 00:04:36,839 --> 00:04:38,960 Speaker 2: part of the world. So you you crack on with it. 94 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:43,040 Speaker 2: You get those you get those little in turns in there, 95 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:44,440 Speaker 2: and you tell them how it's done. You show them 96 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:46,239 Speaker 2: how it's done, mate, the Murray Old's way. 97 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:47,760 Speaker 1: Thank you very much. 98 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:51,599 Speaker 2: Taking Murray Murray Olds. He's in charge of stuff this morning. 99 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:53,320 Speaker 2: He says, I don't have time to be on this program, 100 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:55,400 Speaker 2: Like God, I've got stuff to do. A He's a 101 00:04:55,440 --> 00:05:00,560 Speaker 2: man of He's a man of immense power, influence, wealth, mystery. 102 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:04,080 Speaker 1: For more from The Mic Asking Breakfast, listen live to 103 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:07,239 Speaker 1: News Talks at b from six am weekdays, or follow 104 00:05:07,279 --> 00:05:08,800 Speaker 1: the podcast on iHeartRadio.